Sentences with phrase «irrigated land»

Agricultural, irrigated land tended to have much lower time on the market, at 60 days, compared to commercial, which averaged 237 days.

What they need is a way to produce green energy for a polluted province and planet and farmers who've been scratching out a living on notoriously poorly irrigated land for decades can finally make a little money by leasing out land on which the clean energy machines will operate.

Although this mining of underground water is taking a toll on U.S. grain production, irrigated land accounts for only one fifth of the U.S. grain harvest, compared with close to three fifths of the harvest in India and four fifths in China.

Irrigated crops will increase evaporative cooling, and in some cases irrigated land area is large.

Although this mining of underground water is taking a toll on U.S. grain production, irrigated land accounts for only one fifth of the U.S. grain harvest, compared with close to three - fifths of the harvest in India and four - fifths in China.

Gornitz et al. (1997) estimate that evapotranspiration of water from irrigated land leads to an increase in atmospheric water content and hence a fall in sea level of 0.14 to 0.15 mm / yr.

With 60 percent of the world's grain harvest produced on irrigated land, anything that reduces the irrigation water supply reduces the food supply.

In a country dependent on irrigated land for 70 percent of its grain, water shortages are fast becoming a security issue.

Among the big three agricultural producers, this more - efficient technology is used on 1 - 3 percent of irrigated land in India and China and on roughly 4 percent in the United States.

This reaction was conjectured to reduce rainfall over the irrigated land while generating a clockwise circulation that interacts with the prevailing regional wind.

Wheat yields were low and static, with a national average yield of 750 kilos per hectare, even though most of the wheat was grown on irrigated land.

On the topic of our vanishing water supply and the state of America's High Plains Aquifer, «one of the world's great aquifers responsible for about 30 % of America's irrigated land,» Hunziker writes:

«It's also crucial to distinguish between sustainable irrigation and the overall conservation of the irrigated land.

The increase in groundwater loss occurred even with a reduction in the amount of irrigated land, which decreased 7 percent from 2007 to 2009 compared to the 2012 - 2016 drought.

In the past century success in feeding a growing population depended in large part on doubling cropland and a five-fold increase in irrigated land.

According to Lester Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute, Argentina alone has 4 million acres of irrigated land already damaged by salinization.

In one area of India, more than 20 square kilometers of soil have been lost to salinization, while in Pakistan nearly all the irrigated land is affected to some extent.

Irrigated land, once salinization has occurred, is very difficult to make fertile again.

For hemp grown on irrigated land, the estimated yield was 1,679 lbs / acre at $ 0.74 per pound, earning $ 1,322 CDN / acre in gross returns; 64 % higher compared to dryland.

The state government has formalised plans for Chinese group Shanghai Zhongfu to develop thousands of hectares of irrigated land in the Kimberley, more than a year after naming the company as its preferred proponent for the land.

Along Colorado's Front Range, fourth - generation farmer Kent Peppler said he is fallowing some of his corn fields this year because he can't afford to irrigate the land for the full growing season, in part because deep - pocketed energy companies have driven up the price of water.

He plans to sell some of the groundwater coursing beneath his fields to drillers, because it isn't enough to irrigate his lands in Glasscock County.

What the people needed most was water for themselves, their grasslands and their crops, and canals and reservoirs were developed with much engineering skill to drain off the flood waters and irrigate the land.

Our method of growing food is also exhausting our aquifers and salting our irrigated lands.

Attempts were made to boost this intensive agriculture by sinking wells to irrigate the land.

Most falls in just four months, so the idea is to build dams to store these wet season rains, and irrigate the land during the eight bone - dry months.

By irrigating land that would otherwise be desert, they produce half of the fruit and vegetables sold in the US.

Farmers just must ready the soil, and irrigate the land based on a single crop.

Throughout the province, six basins have exhausted their groundwater supplies, leaving their irrigated lands barren.

As Sudan sells or leases land to other countries, for example, the water to irrigate this land will likely come from the Nile, leaving less for Egypt.

Not exact matches

As a result, about 90 percent of the land cultivated by Jewish settlers is irrigated, as opposed to only 3 percent of the land farmed by Palestinians.

Here is a workable scenario: A corporation owned by both Israeli and Palestinian interests (probably the governments, at least initially) builds one or more very large desalination plants and the necessary pipelines, develops the land to be irrigated, manages the farms on that land, and perhaps develops communities where the farm workers can live.

It is customary to give one - tenth of the product of the land if it is watered by rain and one - twentieth if it is irrigated by human effort; two and one - half per cent of savings is suggested, with equal proportions of the increase in cattle or in trade in goods.

Their branches were flourishing and their fruits were shining, their roots were from an immortal land And a river of gladness irrigating them, and the region round about them in the land of eternal life.

According to one estimate, more than 500,000 acres are lost each year to salinity and waterlogging together, so that today the amount of land ruined by irrigation probably equals all that can be made productive if irrigated.

«We control all our land and 90 percent is contiguous with our facility,» Michael says, noting that all of its land is irrigated with center - pivot systems.

«The greatest demand is for sheep meat and wool, dry land cropping and irrigated row cropping (at scale) and permanent plantings like tree nuts and citrus,» Mr Thomas said.

They are irrigated and dry land farmers and ranchers, many of whom were practicing organic agricultural techniques before organic certification was even available.

About 20 percent of all cropland worldwide is irrigated; that land yields 40 percent of the world's food supply.

«What we want to do is provide useful information that either farmers or land investors can use to look into the future and make decisions on where is the right region to expand irrigated agriculture, and where is it more risky.

«In order to grow enough corn, we've been pushing to the fringes, into land that needs extensive irrigating,» says Otto Doering, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University.

With 3 million hectares of good alluvial land, half of which can be irrigated easily, Mali could become a breadbasket.

And the World Bank reported recently that when land in the northeastern Piaui district was redistributed to small farmers, yields increased by up to 40 per cent on naturally irrigated farms and up to 70 per cent on those that were artificially irrigated.

Though he appears in just three scenes in Roman Polanski's 1974 masterpiece Chinatown, John Huston creates one of movie history's most formidable villains: Noah Cross, the wealthy and ruthless land baron who masterminds an elaborate plot to buy up cheap desert property in the San Fernando Valley, irrigate it after bribing the water department, and sell the land for millions.

The way we live is reliant on agriculture, and in the United States much of the food that comes to our table is grown in California, and in order to grow that food the land must be irrigated.

That's because China has been tapping into its aquifers, underwater reservoirs deep underground, to irrigate its farm land.

The countries set a cap on how much land Kashmir could irrigate and agreed to strict regulations on how and where water could be stored.

The former Soviet union had a virgin lands campaign where they converted something like 46 million hectares of virgin steppe in to wheat acreage attempted to irrigate with water that would wind up in the Aral Sea.

Irrigated cropland from FAO, FAOSTAT Statistics Database, at apps.fao.org, land data updated 4 April 2005.

Among these are shifting from conventional tillage to minimum - till and no - till, the more extensive use of cover crops, the return of all livestock and poultry manure to the land, expansion of irrigated area, a return to more mixed crop - livestock farming, and the forestation of marginal farmlands.